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Managing Climate Change - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The removal of carbon dioxide from waste gases from power stations
      - This reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emssions into the atmopshere
      - This CO2 is then stored in old oil and gas fields or coal mines underground
    - - Encouraging afforestation to increase tree population
      - More trees means carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis
      - The Bangladesh Sundarbans are filled with mangroves, which are trees that survive in large amounts of water, protecting the area
    - - This reduces greenhouse gases, such as CO2, into the atmosphere
      - Using renewable energy, such as wind or solar, reduces use of fossil fuels
    - - Paris Agreement
        
        This was aimed to: strength global responses to (/the impacts of) climate change, keep global temperature rise below 2C, and helping developing countries through mitigating and adapting.
        
        Governemnts around the world aim to achieve net zero emssions by 2050
        
        Signed by 196 countries on the 12th december 2015
        
        This has been more successful than the Kyoto Protocol, however the USA quickly dropped out of the agreement due to President Trump
      - Kyoto Protocol
        
        Those who signed up must reduce their carbon dioxide emmisions by 5%
        
        In 2005 the Kyoto Protol became international law
        
        This ran out in 2012, and the effect was minimal
        
        The US refused to join
        
        Developing countries were not required to join, such as China or India
- - - - Water transfer schemes can be used to transfer water from areas of surplus to defeceit.
      - Some areas will rain less because of climate change
    - - Sea defences can be used to prevent/slow erosion of land
      - Bangladesh has a floating hospital that can traverse and move around flooded areas near the coast. This allows easy access to a hospital, which cannot be destroyed due to land erosion
      - Banned the construction of homes near the coast
    - - The charity 'Farm Africa' has provided farmers with GM seeds. This allows for more production of crops, such as cowpeas, increasing producing from 119kg/hectare to 275kg/hectare
      - Reducing water usage
        
        Using crops that take less water to grow
        
        Irrigating water used more efficiently
        
        Measuring soil moisture
        
        Only watering when necessary
        
        Storm and waste water can also be used to water crops
      - Developing crops that can withstand heat and drought, for example in drought-stricken Kenya with improved seed varieties
    - - Houses becoming more 'flood proof' - not carpeting ground-floor rooms, and having plug sockets higher
      - The Netherlands have floating homes in existing beds of water, that rise and fall with the water
      - Drainage systems better adapted to deal with flooding
      - They also have amphibious homes that are usually on land, however can float when water is below them